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Re:Ask HN: What are you currently building? by miguelrochefort on Sunday January 03, 2016 @07:25PM (#10833340)
I have lost all motivation for lesser challenges. I can't be excited about a very specific project with a doman-specific purpose.

One could probably summarize my mission as to bridge the gap between consuming and creating software. Sometimes, I tell people that I'm creating a new language (which I am).

A tree is just a unidirectional graph. Most file systems use the tree structure which is crippling. I'd like to know what's better and more flexible than a graph.

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Re:Ask HN: What are you currently building? by doublerebel on Sunday January 03, 2016 @11:04PM (#10833932)
I think we can build the trust system using a hypergraph. There's also a couple special kinds of nodes that will shorten the walk between seemingly disconnected items. I've been thinking about this for a while too.
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Re:Ask HN: What are you currently building? by miguelrochefort on Monday January 04, 2016 @01:02AM (#10834253)
> A simple graph can be considered a special case of the hypergraph, namely the 2-uniform hypergraph.

Hypergraph it is.

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